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Practical Welding Today January/February 2003
The Welder, formerly known as Practical Welding Today, is a showcase of the real people who make the products we use and work with every day. This magazine has served the welding community in North America well for more than 20 years.
Optimizing repair welding in oil refineries
- By Roger Griffiths
- Feb 27, 2003
- Arc Welding
- Article
A refinery is a complex array of pressure vessels, piping, structural carbon steel, and other components that depends on welding for its structural integrity. A minor problem can have enormous cost and safety implications.
Metallurgy Matters: It's all about why
- By Bob Capudean
- Feb 27, 2003
- Metals/Materials
- Article
Talk about a can of worms ... From crystalline structures to phase diagrams and interstitial solutions, from microstructures to allotropic transformations, it sometimes seems that for every question metallurgy can answer, for every problem it can solve, it creates two more.
Aluminum Workshop: Choosing tungsten electrode type, size for aluminum TIG
- By Frank Armao
- Feb 27, 2003
- Aluminum Welding
- Article
Which size and type of tungsten electrode should you use to gas tungsten arc weld (GTAW) aluminum? Learn more.
Keeping an eye on safety: how to protect welders from eye injuries
- By Karen D. Hamel
- Jan 16, 2003
- Safety
- Article
Using orbital welding equipment led to productivity gains in one of the nation's first fusion-welded underground pipelines.
Investigating applications, hardware, collision protection, and height control
- By Ronald W. Schneider P.E.
- Jan 16, 2003
- Cutting and Weld Prep
- Article
Using orbital welding equipment led to productivity gains in one of the nation's first fusion-welded underground pipelines.
KNOWLEDGE: The key to welding productivity?
- By Stephanie Vaughan
- Jan 16, 2003
- Shop Management
- Article
In the year 2000 manufacturing, construction, and mining industries had $34.1 billion worth of welding-related expenses. At the same time more than a half million people in the U.S. had welding-related jobs -- and that's not counting self-employed and nonproduction welders.
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- Podcast:
- The Fabricator Podcast
- Published:
- 04/30/2024
- Running Time:
- 53:00
Seth Feldman of Iowa-based Wertzbaugher Services joins The Fabricator Podcast to offer his take as a Gen Zer...
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